Baby monitors now want to predict who your kid will become
The firm that built its brand identity described the job, per Sapna Maheshwari in The New York Times, as "transcending the negative connotations of 'surveillance.'" Nanit's chief executive calls the product "the child answer" to adult wearables like Oura and Whoop, and wants to track kids from birth through age 10. TL;DR: UmanWrite is an AI writing platform that humanizes AI-generated content, checks it against AI detectors, and adapts… READ THE REST This AI photo editor turns your blurry vacation pics into gallery material Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: This Luminar Neo lifetime bundle pairs a full AI-powered photo editor with a landscape editing video course… READ THE REST This $399 AutoCAD deal is suspiciously well drafted Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post.
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Baby monitors now want to predict who your kid will become Ellsworth Toohey 2:09 pm Tue Aug 4, 2026 baby monitor surveillance — Jpsammy / Public domain (Wikimedia Commons) Nanit's flagship product is a camera bolted above a crib, logging the exact moment a baby's eyes open and close and scoring each night's sleep from zero to 100. The firm that built its brand identity described the job, per Sapna Maheshwari in The New York Times, as "transcending the negative connotations of 'surveillance.'" Nanit's chief executive calls the product "the child answer" to adult wearables like Oura and Whoop, and wants to track kids from birth through age 10.
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